Americans responding to the latest Gallup poll are evenly divided on abortion, gender identity and other culture war topics but veer right on economic issues.

The polling company reported Monday that participants in a recent survey were separated closely among self-identified conservatives (32%), moderates (32%) and liberals (33%) on social issues.

Gallup said those readings matched its latest five-year polling average. Since the company first posed the question in polls from 1999 to 2008, the number of self-identified social liberals has risen from a quarter or less of all adults.

On economic issues, 39% of respondents identified as conservative, 35% as moderate and 23% as liberal. That was down from a recent peak of 25% identifying as liberal in a 2021 poll.

“The overall increase in liberal views on both social and economic issues is driven exclusively by Democrats,” wrote Justin McCarthy, a Gallup analyst.

Gallup noted a 30-point surge over 20 years in the share of Democrats describing themselves as liberal or very liberal on social issues, from 39% in 2004 to 69% this year. During the same period, the company found the share of Democrats self-identifying as liberal on economic issues nearly doubled from 28% to 49%.

By comparison, the share of Republicans tagging themselves as conservative or very conservative on social issues increased from 64% in 2004 to 74% in 2024, while the tally of economic conservatives jumped from 64% to 82% of GOP adults.

According to Gallup, steep drops in the number of moderate Republicans and conservative Democrats over two decades drove members of both parties to opposite ideological extremes.

Meanwhile, the number of independents calling themselves moderate, conservative and liberal remained statistically unchanged. More than four in 10 survey respondents with no political party identified as moderate on social and economic issues this year, with the remainder skewing right on economics and left on social matters.

Mr. McCarthy said “landmark changes on LGBTQ+ rights, legalization of marijuana in much of the country, and the Supreme Court’s recent overturning of Roe v. Wade” pushed Democrats further to the left.

Gallup conducted a randomized national telephone survey of 1,024 adults from May 1-23. The margin of error was plus or minus 4 percentage points at the 95% confidence level.

• Sean Salai can be reached at ssalai@washingtontimes.com.